The Risk of Trading Vulnerability for Opportunity

In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan talk about when is the best time to give up equity. At the early stages of a Startup, founders often seek to partner with a co-founder in the hopes of growing the company. But what founders don’t realize is that it may be too early to look for a partner or too risky to look for one. Selling the equity of your company, when it’s at its lowest value, will only nip down its potential growth.

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What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 When is the wrong time to raise a capital?
• 04:02 The equity is future value of your company
• 09:29 Is giving up equity the only way?
• 17:27 The single most expensive investment: meeting your co-founder
• 20:24 The story of two founders
• 23:56 What if there’s a law that won’t allow a co-founder in the first year
• 25:02 Another founder story
• 29:30 We often blind ourselves to other solutions
• 31:08 You don’t have to do all in the same race
• 35:43 Things you can do that won’t make you less vulnerable